Mr. Taylor, 198 Delaware Ave. Buffalo Sent money today. Consult lawyer John Ryan six hundred thirteen Mutual Life Building Buffalo not later than seventeenth. STEFFENS, 112 Central Park South 12.45 p. New York, N. Y. Sept. 16-14 Mr. Taylor, 198 Delaware Avenue, Bflo. Ryan got money and instructions. STEFFENS, 1.14 p. Goltz and Covani "consulted" Mr. Ryan, who had received $200 on September 16 from Papen through Knauth, Nachod & Kuhne. Then Goltz claimed that he made two aeroplane flights over Niagara Falls, and "reconnoitered the ground." Something went wrong, for after a week arrived the following telegrams: New York, N. Y. Sept. 24-14. John T. Ryan, 613 Mutual Life Bldg. Buffalo. Please instruct Taylor cannot do anything more for him. STEFFENS. 12:51 p. New York, N. Y. Sept. 26-14. Mr. Taylor, care Western Union, Niagara Falls, N. Y. Do what you think best. Did you receive dollars two hundred RYAN 9.45 A. These messages are open to several constructions. They do not contradict Goltz's claim that he "learned that the first contingent of Canadian troops had left the camp." They could indicate that his chief was not fully satisfied with his technique. Perhaps the most intriguing feature of the telegrams is their presence in a safe-deposit vault in Holland when Goltz was captured months later. It may be assumed that if (as he maintained) he was being watched constantly in Buffalo by the United States Secret Service, one of the first things he would have done is to destroy any messages received. We leave the reader to decide--after he has traced Goltz's history a step or two further. Whatever the occasion, the Welland enterprise was dismissed; the dynamite was left with an aviator in Niagara Falls; Fritzen and Busse were discharged from service, and Covani and Goltz left for New York. In a letter dated December 7, from Buffalo, poor Busse wrote to Edmund Pavenstedt, at 45 William Street, New York, pleading that he had been left without any money in Niagara Falls; that he had written to von Papen and had been compelled to wait two weeks before he got $20. His expenses had accumulated during the fortnight, he could not find work, he even had sold his overcoat, and he begged Pavenstedt to send him money to come back to New York. "My friend Fritzen," he added, "was sent back some weeks ago by a gentleman in the German-American Alliance.... I would appreciate anything you can do for me, especially since I enlisted in such a task ... Von Papen signs himself Stevens." The military attaché was frankly disgusted at the failure of the undertaking. Goltz claims to have explained everything satisfactorily, and to have been given presently a new commission--that of returning to Germany for further instructions from Abteilung III of the General Staff, the intelligence department of the Empire.